About the Authors

Miklós Bálint

mbalint@senckenberg.de (MB); ischmitt@senckenberg.de (IS)

Affiliations Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Molecular Biology Center, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

Peter Tiffin

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Björn Hallström

Affiliation Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Robert B. O’Hara

Affiliation Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Matthew S. Olson

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Johnathon D. Fankhauser

Affiliation Plant Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Meike Piepenbring

Affiliation Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Imke Schmitt

mbalint@senckenberg.de (MB); ischmitt@senckenberg.de (IS)

Affiliations Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB IS JDF PT. Performed the experiments: MB. Analyzed the data: MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PT BH RBO MSO MP. Wrote the paper: MB IS PT MSO.